. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. COMPOSITAE (composite FAMILY) 811 962. A. multifloru^ merely spreading; rays light clear blue or rarely violet. â Moist grounds, e. Mass. and s. Vt. to Pa., Mo., and la., rare. Sept. Fig. 951.âPerhaps a hybrid of nos. 14 and 36. 36. A. multiflbrus Ait. Pale or hoary with minute close pubescence, 3-9 dm. high, much branched and bushy ; the heads much crowded on the spreading racemose branches; leaves rigid, crowded, spreading, with rougli or cili
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. COMPOSITAE (composite FAMILY) 811 962. A. multifloru^ merely spreading; rays light clear blue or rarely violet. â Moist grounds, e. Mass. and s. Vt. to Pa., Mo., and la., rare. Sept. Fig. 951.âPerhaps a hybrid of nos. 14 and 36. 36. A. multiflbrus Ait. Pale or hoary with minute close pubescence, 3-9 dm. high, much branched and bushy ; the heads much crowded on the spreading racemose branches; leaves rigid, crowded, spreading, with rougli or ciliate margins, the uppermost passing into the spatulate obtuse hispiduious-ciliate bracts; heads 5-6 mm. long; rays white or rarely purplish, 10-20.âDry sandy soil, s. Me. to Ont., westw. and southw. Fig. 952. Var. Kxfeucs Fernald. Heads solitary or slightly clustered at the tips of slender flexuous branches. â Less common. 37. A. commutatus (T. & G.) Gray. Similar; heads larger (7-9 ram. long); rays 20-30 {A. incanopilosus Sheldon.)âPlains, Mmn. to Sask., westw. and southwestw. July-Oct. 1- â (- â â¢*' ** Heads racemosely unilateral upon very short minutely leafy branchlets. 39. A. vimineus Lam. Smooth or smoothish, m. high, bushy, the long branches almost horizontally spreading; leaves linear or narrowly lanceolate, elongated, the larger ones remotely serrate in the m,iddle with fine sharp teeth ; heads small, 4-6 mm. high, crowded ; bracts narrowly linear, acute or acutish, in 3-4 rows ; rays white. â Moist soil, s. Me. to Ont., westw. and southw. Fig. 954. Var. (Ait.) Gray. Leaves linear, en- tire ; the ascending branches with more scattered paniculate heads. â Similar range. Var. saxAtilis Fernald. Low ( dm. high); branches and branchlets short, ascending, leafy-braoteate, termi- nated by solitary larger heads (often cm. broad).â Rocky shores, N. E. and Que. to 0. 40. A. lateriflbrus (L.) Britton. More or less pu
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